The number of IT professionals using descriptive and predictive analytics grew from the mid-40th percentile to high 60th percentile between January 2018 and January 2019.
2019
Source: Forbes
- Big data ranks 20th across 33 key technologies when businesses were asked their top technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence.
- Nearly 50 percent of businesses say big data and analytics have fundamentally changed business practices in their sales and marketing departments.
- Customer/social analysis is considered the second most important big data analytics use case, followed by predictive maintenance.
- Through 2019, 90% of large organizations will have hired a CDO, but only 50% will be considered a success.
- 29 percent of investment professionals use search trends to derive data.
- 90 percent of the world’s data was created between 2015 and 2016 alone.
- In the banking sector, investments in big data analytics were estimated at $20.8 billion in 2016.
- 90% of enterprise analytics and business professionals currently say data and analytics are key to their organization’s digital transformation initiatives.
- In 2025, the IoT data analyzed and used to change business processes will be as much as all of the data created in 2020.
- 73 percent of businesses consider Spark SQL critical to their analytics strategies as a big data access method.
